Alternate splicing of the rTS gene product and its overexpression in a 5-fluorouracil-resistant cell line

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 3207-3210

  Dolnick, Bruce J ^a,b   Black, Adrian R ^b  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOXURIDINE; GENE PRODUCT; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; GENE EXPRESSION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; DRUG RESISTANCE; FLUOROURACIL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, OVERLAPPING; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0029987653     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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